Gnostic
Pagan Initiates ritually celebrate the observances on the short calendar. This
can take the form of a traditional ritual, or one composed by the Initiate. The longer list indicates days of meditation &
contemplation on the appropriate subject, learning more about the tradition of
the entity named. These can also be days of Silence and/or Fast.

The Tradition no longer practices the designation
of a Goddess to each month in public documents. Each initial designated Goddess
figure is also a link to more information about her—and other pictures link as
well.

Dec. 25
to Jan 5—Yule

Jan 6
Original Christmas Day. In the original Church of the Way for the first
325 years of Christianity, January 6, was celebrated as Jesus / Yeshua's
birthday. Then Emperor Constantine legalized Christianity, even making it the
official state religion of Rome. He couldn't resist moving Yeshua's birthday to
his own god, Sol Invictus' birthday, Dec. 25 on the Roman calendar (which was
the Winter Solstice back then, a day which in our modern calendar usually falls
on Dec. 21). Many early Christian churches continued to celebrate Jan 6 as
Yeshua's birthday up into the 600's AD even though Constantine had changed the
date.

Jan 25-30 Feast
of Old Egyptian creating and destroying God-Goddess Amen-Amenet - The eternal
transformer. Egyptians perceived the many Gods and Goddesses to be aspects of
the one God-Goddess Neter-Neteret.

Jan 31-Feb 2
Imbolc/St. Brigid's Day - Old Celtic/Irish feast of Goddess Brigid; merged with
the Christian feast of St. Brigid. Fires were lit to welcome Her as She
traveled about blessing fields, animals, and people.

Jan 31-Feb 3 Old
European Lunar New Year - Celebration of the Triple Goddess (Goddess of the
Moon and the Seasons) being transformed from the Crone into the Virgin;
celebrated with ritual bathing of divine images.

Jan 31 - Feb 4
Mid-Winter/Candlemas - Festival marking the transformation from death to life,
the beginning of the agricultural year, awakening of hibernating animals, and
return of migrating birds and fish. Observed with a candlelight procession to
bless fields and seeds, recognition of newborns, and contemplation of life.

Jan. 31—Hekate's Feast (Greek)

ASTARTE/February

2—Imbolc/Brigid
1/12—Dionysia
13/15—Lupercalia

26—Dayof NuitJan 31-
Feb 2 Imbolc/St.Brigid's Day - Old Celtic/Irish feast of
Goddess Brigid; merged with the Christian feast of St. Brigid. Fires were lit
to welcome Her as She traveled about blessing fields, animals, and people.

Feb 1-14 Old
Greek festival of God Dionysos - in which vines were pruned and sprinkled with
wine, accompanied by ritual singing and dancing.

Feb 7-8 Feast
of Old Greek Goddess Artemis (Roman Diana) - as creatrix, midwife of birthing
creatures, protector of the young, and punisher of child abusers.

Feb 13 -
Feb 15 Lupercalia / St. Valentine's Day / Norse Family Festival
- Old Roman festival (Lupercalia - Festival of the Wolf) of God-Goddess
Faunus-Fauna, celebrating Pan, fertility, and the coming Spring; merged with he
Christian feast of St. Valentine, celebrating love of all kinds.

March 1-2 Mahashivaratri
- Hindu fast, night vigil, and feast for God-Goddess Shiva-Shakti (union of
Will and Power), who dances to create, destroy, and re-create the universe.
Tantric Hindus believe Shiva is within all men and Shakti within all women;
they recognize gender equality and reject caste.

March 2 - Holy
Wells' Day (Norse)

March 3 -
Aegir's Day (Teutonic)

March 4 - Feast
of Rhiannon (Welsh)
- Egyptian Day

- Anthesteria (Greek)
- Mothering Day (English)

March 5
Navigium Isis - Old Egyptian festival honoring Goddess Isis as Lady of the Moon
and Ruler of the Sea; celebrated with the launching of a boat of offerings.

March 6 - Mars
Day

March 8-9 Feast
of Old Greek Goddess Artemis (Roman Diana) - as protector of wild animals and
vegetation

March 11 -
Hercules Day
- Great Night of Shiva, Vigil and feast for Transcendence

March 12 - Feast
of Marduk (Mesopotamian)

March 14 -
Cathar Remembrance Day. On
March 16 their last fortress fell, but March 14 is a Cathar holy day and on
that last March 14, 1244, they performed a special Easter Rite (it was also
Easter that year). Two days later they were burnt alive by the Roman
Catholic Church, a day also remembered by modern gnostics called Montsegur Day
(see below).

- Roman
Equirria/Horse race dedicated to Mars.

March 14-18
Holi-Hindu Festival - celebrating the courting of God Shiva by Goddess Parvati,
and the efforts on Her behalf by Kama (God of Love) and Rati (Goddess of
Passion). Hindus believe all Gods and Goddesses are aspects of the one Great
God-Goddess Maha Deva-Maha Devi, the limitless, attributeless, immanent, and
transcendent Brahman. Shaivas are devoted to God Shiva in all His aspects.

March
15-27 Phrygian Festival of Cybele and Attis - Goddess of Earth/Wild
Animals and God of Vegetation, Death and Rebirth

March 16 -
Montsegur Day, Gnostic holy remembrance day of the slain Cathar gnostics burned
at the stake on this day in 1244 A.D.
- Dionysos' Festival (Greek)
- Bacchus' Day (Roman)

March 17 - St.
Patrick's Day - Old European festival marking rebirth of the Green Man / Green
George (God as Deciduous Vegetation); merged with the Christian feast of St.
Patrick.
- Festival of Astarte - Celebrating the Canaanite Holy Land Goddess of Love
- Liberalia (Roman)

March 20-21 Old
Sumerian Festival - celebrating the return of Dumuzi (God of Life and Death)
from the Underworld to be with Inanna (Goddess of Life) for the verdant part of
the year.

March 20
or 21 Spring Equinox/Vernal Equinox/Ostara & marks the
beginning of Spring. This holiday represents the first creation, but also the
annual creation (planting so crops grow each year) and most symbolic, the
perpetual creation. Fertility symbols abound such as eggs and rabbits.
Spring or Vernal Equinox begins a forty day period which culminates with
May Day, another fertility Spring festival of ancient origin. This forty
day period is one of four such in the esoteric Church year. The other
three forty day periods are: Fall Equinox (Sept 22 or 23) to
Halloween/AllSaints Day (Oct. 31, Nov.1), Dec. 25 to Candlemas
(Feb 1 or 2) and of course, Lent. Lent is the forty day period beginning
on Ash Wednesday and ending on Easter Sunday every year.

March 23 -
Venus' Day
- Summer Finding (Norse)

March 24:
Feast Day of Archangel Gabriel whose name means, "The High One's
Hero," or "Hero of God," or "Power of God," or
"Might of God." Note this day comes one day before Annunciation
Day when Gabriel performed his most famous

- Britannia's Day

- Heimdall's Day (Norse)

March 25 -
Annunciation Day, Christian feast commemorating Blessed Maria's choosing to
conceive Child Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit and to become a catalyst
of liberation and redemption

April 16 -
St. Padarn's Day (Celtic)
- Feast of St. George (Byzantine)

April 15-17 Feast
of the Seas - Honoring God-Goddess as Olokun-Yemaya (Yoruba/Santeria) and
Okeanos-Tethys (Old Greek).

April 18 -
Thargelia (Greek)
-Rava Navami (Hindu)

April 22 Earth Day - Day
to honor the Earth and to meditate on Deity manifesting as Mother Earth
- Festival of Isthar (Babylonian)
- Feast of the Divine Couple (Japanese)
- Feast of Elaphebolia (Greek)

- Odin's
Day - Norse festival.

April 23 - European
Festival of the Green Man, Spirit of Vegetation and Forests
- Sigurd's Day (Germanic)

April 25 - Holy
Prophet Mani's Day (he was born on this day in the 3rd century A.D.)
Manichaeans were his followers, predecessors of modern gnostics
- Spring Festivals - Dedicated to Cerne, Pan, Horned God.

Roman Robligalia - Corn
Mothers (Ceres and Demeter) and Harvest.

Arbor Day - Day
to honor trees, to plant trees, and to meditate on Deity manifesting as trees,
such as Goddesses Helice/Willow (Greek) and Yggdrasill/Ash (Norse).

April 30 -
Walpurgisnacht (Germanic)

- Floralia Ends (Roman)

- Beltane Begins at
Sundown (Celtic, Wiccan)

- Salus

St. Sophia's Day

April 30 - May 2
Old Norse Feast.

Beltaine (Eve.) - Celtic festival marking
the arrival of summer in ancient times

Movable Holiday:
2nd Sunday in May. Mother's Day - Day to give love and thanks to
all mothers; day for mothers to celebrate motherhood and contemplate their
sacred duty to provide for the physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual
needs of their children.

June 18:
Roman Day of Anna - Goddess Danu to the Celts. Early Christian-Pagans made sure
Anna entered the Kristian story, making her Yeshua's grandmother, Mary's
mother.

June 20 - Iron
Skegge's Day (Norse Heathen)
- Festival of Edfu (Egyptian)
- Kuan-Yin Day (day she became a Bodhisattva)

June 21:
Summer Solstice (Click for details)

- Day of Cerridwen and her
Cauldron (English/Welsh)

- Day of Aine of Knockaine
(Irish)

- Day of the Green Man (Northern
Europe)

- The Great Mother (British)

- Alban Hefin (Druidic)

- Waa-Laa Ends (Native American)

- Litha (Wiccan)

- All Hera's Day (Roman)

- Ishtar's Day (Babylonian)

- Astarte's Day (Canaanite)

- Aphrodite's Day (Greek)

- Yemaya's Day (Brazilian)

- Aine's Day (Irish)

June 23: Celtic
Day of the Green Man - In honor of Cerne, Cernernos, Lugh.

June 24:
TEMPLAR HOLY DAY. In the Roman calendar this day was thought to be Summer
Solstice. The Church renamed this pagan holiday to St. John the Baptist Day.
Templars revered it highly. On Jun 24, 1314 a mysterious band of knights
joined Robert the Bruce of Scotland on the battlefield making his victory at
Bannockburn possible. These knights could only have been a troop of
disbanded and now in-hiding Templars who had fled to western Scotland.
St. John's day was used by Freemasons in 1717 to found the first public
(non-Scottish) Order of Freemasonry in London. Masonic teachings are said
to descend from the esoteric Christianity of Templarism. St. John the
Baptizer was beheaded because he wouldn't give in and sacrifice his principles.
This is a Templar ideal, as is the constancy and regularity (order out of
chaos) of the solstices and equinoxes.

July 19 Egyptian Opet Festival - Celebrating the marriage
of Isis and Osiris.

July 22
Mary Magdalene Feast Day - the Holy Grail. Official Christian feast
of St. Maria Magdalen, both Catholic and Eastern Orthodox. Bake some
Madeleine cakes for the Queen of Heaven using these recipes in honor of
her day.

July 28
Archangel Auriel (Uriel) Day. His/Her name means "Fire or Light of
God," and titles include, Regent of the Sun, Angel of Music, Patron of
Prophecy, Archangel of Salvation, Angel of the Presence. See Uriel.org for more.

Aug 15 -
Assumption Day - Christian feast commemorating Blessed Maria rising into
Heaven, being crowned Queen of Heaven and Earth, and being transformed into Our
Lady, the Paraclete (the Holy Spirit) who appears everywhere.

Aug 15 was originally
THE ASSUMPTION OF THE HOLY SOPHIA, The Assumption of the Holy Sophia into the
Pleroma is commemorated on August 15th. This correlates in the orthodox church
with the (bodily Assumption of the Virgin Mary, a recent addition to the Roman
liturgical life. The ancient Gnostic scriptures tell of Sophia, the feminine
aspect of the highest God, who wanders out of heaven and gets lost in the lower
regions. By singing praises to the Light, she is rescued by the Savior and he
aids her return to heaven by a mystery. In our psychological perspective, we
are cast out of the Fullness of Being to become differentiated egos. By the
mystery figure of the Logos we are able to individuate and return to the state
of Wholeness. Thus Sophia's plight is our own, and by her example we may be
inspired to continue on our path. (from:
http://www.gnosis.org/ecclesia/cal_mandala.htm )

Aug 17 - Feast
Day of Saint Sophia, the saintly version of the ancient Goddess Sophia, Wisdom
in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). Other sources list her feast day as
September 30, and as Aug 15 above.

Aug 21 Greek
Festival of Hekate - To protect the harvest.

Aug 24 Feast
of Egyptian God Osiris - Partner and true love of Isis, and father of Horus;
guide of all husbands, fathers, and judges.

Aug 25 Norse
God Odin receives knowledge.

Roman Festival of Goddess Ops -
Lady of the Cornucopia, Bounty of the Harvest and Sustainer of Life.

Sept 8 - Birthday of Virgin Mary & DESCENT OF THE HOLY SOPHIA The
Descent of the Holy Sophia falls on September 8th. In the Roman calendar this
day celebrates the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and prefigures the
sacred birth of Jesus. In the Gnostic tradition, part of Sophia returns to the
aeons, to her true home, and part of her being symbolically returns to the
lower regions or to earth. She comes to earth to be with us, her children, to
be our consolation and the inspiration of our love. By this image we have the
promise that we are not left alone in our darkness but have Sophia's abiding
presence in our lives. (from:
http://www.gnosis.org/ecclesia/cal_mandala.htm )

Sep 22 or 23, Autumn
Equinox, Mabon, Ishtar's Day: The Fall Equinox always begins the forty day All
Hallows season, which culminates with Halloween, All Saints Day and then All
Souls Day (Oct. 31, Nov. 1, Nov. 2 respectively). This forty day period
is one of four such in the esoteric Church year. The other three forty
day periods are: Spring Equinox (Mar 20 or 21) to May Day, Dec. 25
to Candlemas
(Feb 1 or 2) and of course, Lent. Lent is the forty day period beginning
on Ash Wednesday and ending on Easter Sunday every year.

Sep or sometimes Oct (day
varies) Rosh Hashanah, Jewish New Year, always followed ten days later
by Yom Kippur. Yom Kippur is the last of the Ten Days of Awe in Hebrew
lore. The first of the Ten Days of Awe is Rosh Hoshanah, the Jewish New Year,
when the gates of heaven are said to be flung open allowing blessings rain upon
us for Ten Days, after which it goes shut again. "May your name be written
in the book of life," is the greeting Jews use during the Ten Days of Awe
because on Yom Kippur, the solemn Day of Atonement, the gates and the book go
shut again.

Sep 26 - Oct 5 Navaratri, Hindu Festival of the Great GoddessHuge holiday in India
when Goddess destroys evil and restores cosmic order

Sep 30, Feast day of Saint Sophia,
mother of Faith, Hope & Charity, saintly version of Goddess of Wisdom.
Alternative feastdays for her are August 15 or 17, see above.

HATHOR/October

2—Daemon/Holy Guardian Angel

9/11—Feast of Divine Wisdom

Celebration of the Ankh

13—Knights Templar Remembrance

28/3—Isia

30—Fast of Thoth

31—Feast of Anubis/Samhain

October's Variable (Movable)
Holidays:
Yom Kippur / Day of Atonement - End of the 10 Days of Awe, when the Gates of
Heaven go closed again. A day of fasting and repenting for any
mistakes made during the year. Yom Kippur is the last of the Ten Days of
Awe in Hebrew lore. The first of the Ten Days of Awe is Rosh Hoshanah, the
Jewish New Year, when the gates of heaven are said to be flung open allowing
blessings rain upon us for Ten Days when it goes shut again. "May your
name be written in the book of life," is the greeting Jews use during the
Ten Days of Awe because on Yom Kippur, the solemn day of atonement, the gates
and the book go shut again.

-Hindu Festival of Lights,
Diwali. India's Lunar New Year. Celebrated for 3 days up to and
including the New Moon. Goddess Lakshmi and her husband God Vishnu are invoked
for prosperity

Oct 2 - Druid
Feast of the Guardian Spirits

Oct 4 - St. Francis
of Assisi Day, one of the most pagan of the Christian saints, he coined terms
"brother sun, sister moon", and honored the covenant between humans
and the animal kingdom

Oct 24
Raphaelmas, Feast of Archangel Raphael, whose name means, "The High One
Heals." Since 1970, the Catholic Church no longer recognizes this
day for Raphael, ending more than a thousand years of tradition by opting to
lump him in with Gabriel and Michael for a Feast of the Holy Archangels Day on Sept
29.

Oct 28 - Nov 3 Isia -
Egyptian festival recalling Set (God of Destruction) killing God Osiris;
Goddess Isis mourning Him, resurrecting Him, and conceiving God Horus with Him;
and Osiris becoming Lord of Amenta, land of the dead. He weighs souls against
the Feather of Truth on Goddess Maat's Scale of Justice, but defers to Isis for
those who fail the test.

Oct 31 - Nov 2 Descent
of Inanna - Sumerian fast recalling the descent of Inanna (Goddess of Life) to
the Underworld. Ereshkigal (Goddess of Death and Rebirth) detained Her until
She agreed to have Dumuzi (God of Life and Death) remain there each Winter.

Oct 31 - Nov 6
Mid-Autumn / Day of the Dead / Hallowmas - Festival marking the transformation
of life to death, the end of the agricultural year, departure of migrating and
hibernating animals, and decay and death of vegetal and animal life. Observed
by remembering departed ancestors and contemplating one's own mortality.

Nov 1 -
All Saints Day - Christians around the world remember all the dead on this day

Nov 8 -
Seven Holy Archangels Day (Orthodox Christian). The seven original Archangels to
the Eastern Orthodox Church are: Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel,
Raguel, Sariel, and the fallen Lucifer. Lucifer lost his place to another
Archangel but the various lists can't make their minds up about the name of the
new archangel. Baracael, Ieadiel, Sealtiel, Peliel, and Gamael are some
of the possibilities. The Book of Enoch says: The big four plus
Raguel, Sariel, and Jerahmeel, while from other apocryphal sources we get the
variant names Izidkiel, Hanael, and Kepharel instead of the last three.

Nov 11 Feast
of Dionysus - Greek God whom Yeshua was "connected to" as the Cosmic
Gnosis. Also Veteran's Day when we remember the dead. See
article.

Celtic Lunatishees - Day
of the Fairie Sidhe, Old November Day.

Nov 13
Festival of Jupiter - Roman deity associated with rain and agriculture, prime
protector of the state, and concerned with all aspects of life.

Nov 16 - Night
of Hekate, Greek Goddess of the Hags or Wisewomen, (later called Witches), her name comes from Heqa-ma'at, a
goddess in the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead who later became Hekmah or
Hokmah (also spelled Chokmah) meaning wisdom in the ancient Hebrew Bible (Old
Testament). From Heqa-ma'at / Hecate / Hokmah we get the Greek word for
wisewoman or holywoman, "hag". Hecate was goddess of the hags
and it was a very complementary thing to be a hag of the Hagia Sophia
tradition!

Nov 20 - Day
of All Gnostic Saints (see http://www.gnosis.org/ecclesia/cal_mandala.htm for
explanation)

Nov 27 - Day
of Parvati - Hindu Mother of the Universe
- Feast of Ullr: “The Feast of Ullr was to celebrate the Hunt and to gain
the personal luck needed for success. Weapons are dedicated on this day to
Ullr. If your arms were blessed by the luck of the God of the Hunt, your family
and tribe shared the bounty with a Blot and Feast to Ullr .”

3rd Thursday of November:
Thanksgiving Day - Day to give thanks for religious freedom here in this
great country, the fertile abundance of mother earth, and basic necessities of
life, "thread, bread, and shed." (Clothes, food, shelter).

Nov 29
Egyptian Feast of Hathor - as Sekhmet, Lioness and Sun Goddess, the alternate
of Bast, the Cat Goddess.

Last Sunday of November begins
Advent, the Festival of Lights for the Coming of the Light of the World -
Christian vigil for the birth of the Cosmic Christ. Advent candles are lit on
each of the four Sundays before Christmas. A purple one on the 1st, 2nd and
4th Sundays, and a pink one on the 3rd Sunday. Here's a traditional Advent Wreath
"how-to" page.

Dec 6 - St Nicholas of Myra Day,
patron saint of children & mariners, original Santa Claus, known for his
love of children
- Mindfulness Day - Zen Buddhist day for mindfully seeing and acting with
compassion for the poor and oppressed.

-Day of
Archangel Raphael, whose name means "Healing power of El". Celebrated December 22nd. Raphael
is the angel of healing and health, and is always invoked in the Sacrament of
Unction. Raphael represents the principle of regeneration as related to the
powers of health and also the regeneration of the Light in the realm of
darkness. Thus Raphael has been celebrated in our tradition at the winter
solstice, because when the darkness has reached its epitome, it engenders the
renewed Light, which is then "born" on Christmas Day. From: http://www.gnosis.org/ecclesia/cal_mandala.htm

Dec 25 - Christmas Day, Christian
celebration of Blessed Maria giving birth to Child Jesus by the power of the
Holy Spirit.
- European Feasts of Herne, Frey, Dionysus - Birth of the God, the Light of the
World.

Dec 31 - Egyptian Lucky Day of Sekhmet
– Sekhmet, the ravaging lioness, with her burning solar eye, is the
destroyer/devourer aspect of the goddess.

Hymn to VestaHomeric

Come,
Vesta,
To live in this beautiful home.
Come with warm feelings of friendship.
Bring your intelligence,
Your energy and your passion
To join us with your goodwill.
Burn brightly at my hearth.
Burn always in my soul.
You are welcome here.
I remember you.